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Revision as of 23:32, 26 June 2016
Fluigi is a tool used to specify, design, and build a microfluidic device.
What are Microfluidics?
Microfluidic devices are modular and consist of valves and channels that can manipulate small volumes of liquids.
Advantages: reduce reagent costs, automate experiments, and attain a high and more precise throughput with predictable fluid flow.
Problems related to current method of photolithography: technical agility, high cost (about $80,000) and long build time.
Here's where Fluigi comes into use!
Here's where Fluigi comes into use!
Where can we use Microfluidics?
- Synthetic Biology: 'Lab on a Chip', 2014 - Experiments to monitor precise control of the number and concentration of input: 'Diverse Sensitivity Thresholds in Dynamic Signaling Response by Social Amoebae', 2012 - Single-cell tracking: 'Microfluidics for Synthetic Biology: From Design to Execution' - Microchemostat for environmental control: 'Long-Term Monitoring of Bacteria Undergoing Programmed Population Control in a Microchemostat', 2005
